Saturday, June 30, 2012

On
the eve of President Aquino’s second year in power, students, young
teachers, church and community youth united to condemn the government’s
K+12 program.

At a forum held Friday at the Philippine Normal
University (PNU), a state-run institution which drafted some parts of
what the protesters claimed was the “anti-nationalist and colonial” K
+12 curriculum, youth groups pledged to stop Aquino’s flagship education
program.

The K+12, implemented by the Department of Education
despite the absence of an enabling law and overruling the current
mandatory 10-year education cycle, is expected to be railroaded by
Congress upon its resumption of sessions on July 23..... MORE